adv
Barely satisfactory or sufficient.
n
Scarcity of items despite the available technology for production or the sufficient capacity for sharing.
n
(literary, Greek philosophy) Tranquility of mind; absence of mental disturbance.
adj
Worse or lower than average.
n
A lack of two essentials
adj
Lacking two essentials
n
(attributive) Something neglected and denied resources, as a Cinderella service.
n
(economics) The component of overall unemployment caused by too high wage expectations.
n
Weakness or inefficiency of a commercial organisation resulting from layoffs, resource cuts, etc.
n
(obsolete) Lack; absence.
n
(mathematics) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
n
deficiency; imperfection
n
The state or quality of being defective.
n
State or quality of being defective.
n
(uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
adj
Lacking something essential; often construed with in.
n
The quality of being deficient.
n
Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack.
adj
Having a limited biodiversity.
adj
Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful.
adj
(obsolete) deficient; lacking
n
The state or condition of being devoid.
n
A weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.
n
The quality of being disadvantaged.
n
The process of disattaching; the removal of something attached.
n
A lack of common possessions, properties, or relationship.
n
(uncountable) The condition of being disempowered; powerlessness
adj
(poetic, rare) Deprived of privacy.
n
The state of lacking privileges, or being underprivileged.
adj
Undervalued, disparaged.
n
(obsolete, rare) Lack of provisions.
n
Lack of ease; uneasiness.
adj
Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.
adv
For want of something better; for lack of an alternative; as a makeshift.
n
(economics) A type of unemployment explained by people being temporarily between jobs, searching for new ones. A labour market is regarded as being in the state of full employment if frictional unemployment is the only kind of unemployment present.
adj
(neologism) In a state of enjoyable unemployment.
n
A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
n
Alternative form of have-not [(usually contrastive) A poor or underprivileged person.]
adj
Obsolete spelling of helpless [Unable to defend oneself.]
n
(obsolete) the lack of provision, a failure to provide something
n
A shortage of required material.
n
The act of removing the contents of something; the state of being empty.
n
(obsolete) The state or quality of not being deficient.
adj
Imperfectly conforming; exceeding or falling short in some respect.
adj
(obsolete) Tending to weaken, annul, or make void.
n
The condition of being inquorate, or not having enough members to carry out business and cast votes.
n
(obsolete) insufficiency; emptiness
n
Obsolete form of insufficiency. [The lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy.]
n
The lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy.
n
(archaic) Lack of use; disuse.
v
(intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
n
Freedom provided by the cessation of activities.
adj
Having leisure time, especially as a result of not having to work for a living.
n
An imperfection or shortcoming that limits something's use or value.
n
Under the philosophy of sustainable development, poor economic, human or social development.
n
Excessively high male unemployment.
n
(economics) An economic indicator formed by adding the unemployment rate to the inflation rate.
n
Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
n
(uncountable) The state of being obsolete—no longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected.
n
The condition of being omnisufficient
adj
(of a user of a service) Not having availability of a service, such as power or communications.
n
(philosophy) The state of being deprived of or lacking an attribute formerly or properly possessed; the loss or absence of such an attribute.
adj
Relating to privation.
n
something that causes privation or indicates an absence
adj
(mathematics, linear algebra, of a matrix) Not having full rank; having a rank (dimension) less than the number of columns and the number of rows.
n
The state of being rejected.
adj
Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
n
Inability to create change or excessive resistance to change.
n
(economics) A type of unemployment explained by a seasonal variation in the structure of jobs and/or labour offered. Seasonal unemployment typically repeats the same pattern annually.
adj
deficient in itself; not whole or complete; lacking
adj
Partially retired; working part time, and/or not yet receiving pension benefits nor drawing down retirement savings.
adj
Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
n
Alternative spelling of shortfall [An instance of not meeting a quota, debt, or monthly payment on a debt or other obligation, or of having an insufficient amount to cover such obligations.]
n
A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.
n
A deficiency, with some cognitive emphasis on the fact that some outcome or characteristic has fallen short of a goal or ideal.
n
(economics) A type of unemployment explained by a mismatch between the requirements of the employers and the properties (such as skills, age, gender or location) of the unemployed.
n
The situation where too few people are employed in jobs, or where they have too few hours.
adj
Less than, or worse than, marginal. Not meeting even the minimum standard of quality.
adj
In fiction, lacking a superpower; lacking the special attributes of a superhero or supervillain.
n
The supplying of something lacking.
n
a period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties
n
Lack of abundance; scarcity.
adj
Alternative spelling of underserved. [(medicine) Disadvantaged with regard to health services because of inability to pay, inability to access care, or other disparities for reasons of race, religion, language group or social status.]
n
(sociolinguistics) Insufficient convergence; the situation where a speaker is underaccommodative.
adj
Having inadequate or below-average advantages.
n
A tendency toward being underassertive; social timidity.
adj
Insufficiently cautious.
n
The condition of being underdeveloped.
adj
Employed in a job that offers fewer work hours than desired.
n
The condition of being underemployed.
n
The condition of being underentitled.
n
The quality of being underfunded.
n
Insufficient occupation; the state of being occupied by too few.
adj
Having an insufficient population for economic viability
n
A lack of opportunities or advantages enjoyed by others.
n
A reaction that is inadequate or insufficient.
n
Insufficient or disproportionately low representation.
adj
(medicine) Disadvantaged with regard to health services because of inability to pay, inability to access care, or other disparities for reasons of race, religion, language group or social status.
adj
Receiving an inadequate or disproportionately low level of service, especially from the state
n
Inadequate specification; failure to specify in enough detail.
n
The state of being underutilized
adj
lagging behind others, especially in economic or social matters
n
(countable) An instance or period of joblessness.
n
Obsolete form of insufficiency. [The lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy.]
n
Obsolete form of insufficiency. [The lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy.]
n
(obsolete) Want or lack of usage.
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